3.0.0 3734 2023-01-12T17:52:27Z 2023-01-12T17:52:27Z Senate S S 2006-07-26 109 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2006-07-26T17:41:22Z Multidistrict Litigation Restoration Act of 2005 109 1038 HR 2005-04-20 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Related bill CRS 2006-07-26 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8273-8274) IntroReferral 2006-07-26 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8272-8273) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2006-07-26 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress H000338 Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT] ORRIN HATCH R UT GRANT N S001141 Sen. Sessions, Jeff [R-AL] Jeff Sessions R AL 2006-07-26 True Law Appellate procedure Civil actions and liability Civil procedure Damages District courts Government Operations and Politics Jurisdiction State courts Trials Law 00 2006-07-26 Introduced in Senate 2006-09-06T14:55:01Z Multidistrict Litigation Restoration Act of 2005 [sic] - Amends the federal judicial code to allow a civil action transferred for coordinated or consolidated pretrial proceedings (multidistrict litigation) to be transferred to the transferee or other district for trial purposes in the interest of justice and for the convenience of the parties and witnesses. Requires that any such action transferred for trial purposes be remanded to the district court from which it was transferred for the determination of compensatory damages, unless the court determines the same justification applies to retaining the action for damages determination.

Authorizes the transferee court to retain actions transferred, for the determination of liability and punitive damages, when jurisdiction is or could have been based on the Multiparty, Multiforum Trial Jurisdiction Act of 2002 (which grants district courts original jurisdiction of any civil action involving minimal diversity between adverse parties that arises from a single accident, where at least 75 natural persons have died in the accident at a discrete location). Requires that an action retained for the determination of liability be remanded to the district court from which the action was transferred, or to the state court from which the action was removed, for the determination of damages, other than punitive damages, unless the court finds that the action should be retained for the determination of such damages for the convenience of parties and witnesses and in the interest of justice.

]]> Multidistrict Litigation Restoration Act of 2005 Display Title Multidistrict Litigation Restoration Act of 2005 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend title 28, United States Code, to allow a judge to whom a case is transferred to retain jurisdiction over certain multidistrict litigation cases for trial, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Multidistrict Litigation Restoration Act of 2005 Introduced in Senate 2006-07-26T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-109s3734is/xml/BILLS-109s3734is.xml 2006-07-26 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8273-8274) text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.